Ub3r1337's formula would result in a lot of divide-by-zero errors. I guess you could modify it by adding an amount per student unit taught to the grant money term, since teaching students also brings in some money (and is what universities are supposed to do).

I read the agenda attachment on the school board website (see http://www.sbsdk12.org/board/attachme...). It says that kids who are eligible for free and reduced lunches would also likely be eligible for free bus transportation. This is estimated in the attachment to be 65% of the bused kids, since 65% overall are eligible for free and reduced lunch prices. So, they are only expecting 35% of kids to pay for bus rides.

The numbers of assistant principals for each junior high are in the agenda attachment, but not for the high schools.

Whether same-sex marriage will come to be allowed is less so. Nate Silver, with whom I wouldn't try to disagree with on statistics, calculated that "Marriage bans ... are losing ground at a rate of slightly less than 2 points per year. So, for example, we'd project that a state in which a marriage ban passed with 60 percent of the vote last year would only have 58 percent of its voters approve the ban this year."

"The best hour-by-hour coverage of the Jesusita Fire has been offered by the Santa Barbara Independent, a local alternative weekly. Their reporters have been swarming the area, relaying information into their newsroom and out onto the web from ridge lines, at the evacuation shelters, at fire service headquarters ... even riding bicycles through burned-out neighborhoods and taking down addresses of houses saved and lost. It's been an incredible tour de force of vital information in service of a community in need.

I'm guessing their staff didn't get the memo that "high-end journalism is dying" just because metro dailies are going broke."